Chaerin KimWhat makes a musical performance meaningful? As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating ...
Director Patricia Racette guided the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire with a ...
The youthful, eclectic, avant guard chamber troupe Poiesis Quartet made its Boston debut Sunday at the Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Calderwood Hall. Poiesis is the ancient Greek term ποιεῖν, which means ...
To start what will be their final season, Zander and the BPYO brought the Overture to Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila, ...
A concert entirely of music by a little-known historic composer is a bold undertaking, and Sarah Ioannides (Director of ...
After 13 years of focusing on its namesake, with occasional glimpses of other English composers, the Henry Purcell Society of ...
What makes a musical performance meaningful? As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating music and evaluating performances, this question feels urgent. A machine can ...
Lisbon is perhaps not the first name to enter one’s mind in cataloguing chief European musical cities. Nevertheless, it boasts a somewhat hidden secret asset that we happened upon during a recent trip ...
Guest conductor Kent Nagano bound together this weekend’s Boston Symphony Orchestra program. The bill closes with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, the “Reformation.” That’s preceded by the US premiere of ...
Jeffrey Gantz has a BA in English from Amherst College and a PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. He worked at the Boston Phoenix for 33 years, 20 of them as arts editor.
Throughout the musical world, Randall Thompson is known for his choral masterpiece, Alleluia, composed for the very first Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood in 1940. Intended for the whole ...
As location is to real estate, so provenance is to objects. Think Einstein’s violin, “no Stradivarius” according to Strings Magazine, which sold at auction in 2018 for $516,500. But what if you ...